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The Metamorphic Resistance: Mahmoud Darwish, Resilience (Sumud), and the Architecture of Survival

If you are not rain, my love,be a tree sated with fertility, be a tree.And if you are not a tree, my love, be stone saturated with humidity, be stone.And...

Tha Maharashtra circus and our reform agenda

On our 70th Constitution Day, the first change we should effect is that we should seriously consider, officially, running the government only at night

Maharashtra governor’s action unconstitutional

 The Maharashtra Farce, which was played at the 'stroke...

Assam’s Detention Camps are akin to Germany’s Concentration Camps: Thinkers

A cross-section of thinkers and literary personalities came out against Assam’s Detention camps, demanded their closure and halt to construction of the proposed new one at Goalpara stating that 823 of the 938 persons languishing without fair trial are Assamese citizens

“Have we really done away with our Constitution?”

Exactly, seventy years ago on November 26, 1949, the...

Why isn’t anyone trying to buy this MLA in Maharashtra ?

As everybody watches with bated breath the 'Game of Thrones' that modern day 'Chanakyas' and 'Renaissance men' play in public and applaud the complete lack of pretense that such naked ambition for power entails, one MLA is not interested.

India ranks first in child deaths under 5 years of age: UNICEF report

Despite multiple health schemes running in parallel and many of these focusing on primary health care of children, India is falling behind; it’s time to examine lacunae in implementation

Jharkhand Assembly elections: JVM (P) has highest candidates with criminal charges

BJP has most number of ‘crorepati’ candidates

Why fee hikes are the death of education in India

With private education costs skyrocketing, public universities are the only refuge the disempowered students of India have

TMC-BJP face off in crucial by-polls in Bengal

By-polls being held in three constituencies with substantial population of ‘migrants’

Suspected Bangladeshi sent to Bengal by Karnataka police without trial clueless about their future

Karnataka police picked up 61 people including 15 minors and 25, mostly rag pickers on suspicion of them being Bangladeshi. Without producing them to the court, they have sent them to West Bengal to hand them over to the border security forces, who in turn will hand to the Border Guards of Bangladesh. However of 61 individuals arrested, 59 have been sent to Bengal, while 2 have been kept back in Karnataka only

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From FIRs to “Corporate Jihad”: How the TCS Nashik case was transformed from an investigation into a communal narrative

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Telangana: Stop forcible ‘re-location of Chenchu Adivasis from Amrabad Tiger Reserve

Adivasis and supporting activists have petitioned the authorities against what they term as the ‘forcible re-location” of Chenchu (PVTG) Adivasis in the Amravad Tiger Reserve and urged a ‘co-existence’ model of conservation

Victory for Forest Rights: Allahabad HC recognises land claims of Tharu Tribes, strikes down decision of DLC

The Allahabad High Court recently struck down a 2021 decision of the District Level Committee (DLC), Lakhimpur upholding the land rights of the Tharu tribe while observing that the authorities cannot short-circuit the existing statutory rights of the forest dwellers by blindly relying on court orders issued before the enactment of the Forest Rights Act, 2006 (FRA, 2006). This law recognises the individual and community rights of Adivasis.

Amendment to Women’s Reservation Bill: BJP’s hyperbole on women

The past conduct and ideological moorings of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as that of its parent body, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) reflect not just extreme and exclusivist views on women’s participation but are arguably distinctly misogynistic